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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.
I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.
Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.
I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.